FARM DAIRYING 



Milk sugar is not nearly so sweet as ordinary 

 sugar, neither is it so subject to alcoholic fermenta- 

 tion. It is prepared from whey, and is used com- 

 mercially to sweeten patent medicines and baby 

 foods. Sugar, like fat, produces fat, heat, and 

 energy, in the body. It is the sugar in the whey 

 which makes it valuable for feeding purposes. 



ASH OR MINERAL MATTER 



If we boil some milk till no water remains, then 

 let it burn, we shall have as a residue in the dish 

 a small quantity of light gray, fine ashes. This 

 substance is the mineral part of the milk and is 

 composed of potash, lime, soda, magnesia, phos- 

 phates, etc., the bone-forming elements. 



WATER IN MILK 



In every hundred pounds of milk there are 

 eighty-seven pounds of water, the same as from a 

 spring. This seems a large percentage; but milk 

 being the sole food of the young mammal, the 

 water is necessary to supply the blood with the re- 

 quired fluid to carry the building-up materials to 

 all parts of the body, and also to fill out the tissues. 

 Milk, by its composition and its functions in the 

 economy of the body, may be seen to be a per- 

 fect food; one able not only to sustain life but 



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